TV Sound Supervisor Pete Cowasji (Top Gear, Geordie Shore) of The Sound Hounds on the RME DMC-842

See the full range of RME Microphone Preamps here; Pete Cowasji is a UK-based TV Sound Supervisor whose work includes the likes of Top Gear, Geordie Shore, Dirty Sanchez and Ex on the Beach. With over 20 years in the industry, Pete’s carved out a niche for himself as a go-to-guy for fixed-rig and multi-camera operations, planning and implementing sound for a number of the UK’s most popular reality TV shows. As a longtime user of RME, we were keen to find out more about how Pete first came across RME Audio hardware, and to get a run-through of his latest setup which involves 4 x RME DMC-842s with Neumann digital microphones (AES42). Massive thanks to Pete Cowasji and all of The Sound Hounds! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - About Pete Cowasji & The Shound Hounds 2:05 - Analogue, MADI & AES42 4:58 - On the RME DMC-842 6:19 - Recording reality TV 6:54 - Why RME Audio? 8:55 - Monitoring with TotalMix FX 10:40 - Clocking and Sound Quality 12:05 - RME reliability 12:56